UNITED STATES -- PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

• The Thomas Paine Society held a ribbon cutting celebration in August of the opening of the Thomas Paine Research Library, the construction of which was completed in 2010.

UNITED KINGDOM -- GRANTHAM (Lincolnshire)

• On August 17, a blue palque commemorating Thomas Paine was unveiled on the Ask Restaurant in the George Shopping Center, by the national president of Rotary Great Britain, Ray Burman. The shopping center now occupies part of the site of the George Hotel where Paine lived from December 1762 until he was transferred to Alford. The plaque, one of several commenorating various people in the history of the town, was sponsored by the Grantham Civic Society. TPS was represented at the unveiling, having been invited.